Notes on Contributors

Ann Banfield teaches literature and linguistics in the English Department at the University of California, Berkeley. Her publications include Unspeakable Sentences: Narration and Representation in the Language of Fiction (1982) and The Phantom Table: Woolf, Fry, Russell and the Epistemology of Modernism (2000). Her current project is a book on Samuel Beckett, the mother tongue, and the exploitation of the "syntacticon."

David S. Danaher is an assistant professor of Slavic languages and literatures at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He has published articles on cognitive verbal semantics, on the relationship between a conceptual theory of metaphor and Peircean semiotic theory, and on sensory imagery in "The Death of Ivan Il'ich." He is currently working on a study of Tolstoy's use of metaphorical analogy in Anna Karenina.

David Darby is an associate professor of German and comparative literature in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. He is the author of Structures of Disintegration: Narrative Strategies in Elias Canetti's "Die Blendung" (1992) and of various essays on nineteenth- and twentieth-century narrative literature in German. He also edited the volume Critical Essays on Elias Canetti (2000).

Monika Fludernik is professor of English at the University of Freiburg in Germany. She is the author of The Fictions of Language and the Languages of Fiction (1993), Towards a "Natural" Narratology (1996), and Echoes and Mirrorings: Gabriel Josipovici's Creative Oeuvre (2000). Her research interests span language and literature issues, narratology, eighteenth-century aesthetics, and postcolonial theory.

Tom Kindt is a researcher with the Hamburg Narratology Research Group in the Institute for Modern German Literature and Media Culture at the University of Hamburg, Germany.

Hans-Harald Müller is professor of modern German literature in the Institute for Modern German Literature and Media Culture at the University of Hamburg, Germany.

Meir Sternberg is Artzt Professor of Poetics and Comparative Literature at Tel Aviv University, editor of Poetics Today, and Israel Prize laureate. His publications include Expositional Modes and Temporal Ordering in Fiction (1978), The Poetics of Biblical Narrative: Ideological Literature and the Drama of Reading (1985), and Hebrews between Cultures: Group Portraits and National Literature (1998).